20661 - Util#versioncmp fails in some cases

The versioncmp helper failed to correctly compare 1.2.10 and 1.2.8
but this has already been fixed in Puppet where we got our logic
from first so we're just grabbing whats in Puppet now to resolve
this
20592 - Release 2.2.4

Bump version and stop using deprecated gem package task helper
20592 - Release 2.2.4

update release notes